The news seems to be such a flexible subject these days. North/East/South/West which direction distorts the best? Today I offer my take on the news informed by the African honey bees’ transcontinental story. As you may know, a Brazilian geneticist decided to breed hard-working African bees with mild mannered and […]
race definitions when i was a child race was brought to me in mouthfuls of differences and spit when i was a child there were the negroid the asiatic and the caucasian races and sometimes there were the semites to define the race of arab and jew […]
If you go to any bookstore, independent or chain, it will seem as if you are inundated with magazine choices. But often the best magazines cannot be found on those shelves. Caribbean Interview is an important magazine that needs to read, looked at and enjoyed with its mix of visual […]
It has been suggested that the Trump regime wants to limit the counter-terrorism investigations to “Islamic Terrorism” and not worry about domestic terrorism. This being planned in face of the fact that most acts on USA soil have been the result of home-grown American terrorists, mostly white and mostly Christian. […]
All of us are a product of our families and communities, and also, importantly the people we encounter throughout our lives, the ones who make us see a little more, think a little differently, demand that we stretch our awareness and grow. I have been unusually blessed in this area. […]
What have you done today to help turn the tide? We are all so busy. We struggle with health issues, economic realities, family fissures, and work madness and, if we have room for the sweetness in life, our plates are full. But we need to make room to save our […]
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. James A. Baldwin Get up and go to the movies and see the documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.” This week, before the documentary leaves the theaters. For me, sitting in […]
We have long talked about the USA being at the doorway of fascism, of totalitarianism. Now we joke bitterly that in the face of Trump, Bush doesn’t seem so bad. And now, sadly, finally we have arrived and are stepping over the threshold to the end of this nation as […]
In addition to her work as a journalist, radio personality and television host and producer Kiilu has written hundreds of letters to political prisoners. She also uses her disability to spur her to activism rather than excuse her from continuing to struggle. ************ Letter writing was once considered a literary […]
Kiilu Nyasha is one of my sheroes. She became politically aware as a youth and has been an active member of the struggle to bring human rights and dignity to all people. What is especially impressive about her struggle is that a significant amount of her revolutionary activism has been accomplished as a disabled […]
